职称英语考试

【单选题】International Trade
Since the end of World War II, international trade has developed dramatically.All countries in the modern world join in worldwide trade, through which various sorts of merchandise and (51) materials arc exported in (52) for foreign currency, which means income wealth from (53) and job opportunity at home, and in the meantime, foreign goods are imported to provide consumers with (54) and welcome merchandise. Today, economic interdependence among countries is so (55) that no country can close its doors to the outside world, and the more prosperous the national economy, the more developed the foreign trade.Economic globalization is now a (56) in the worlD、
But in the past when old and new colonialism ruled the world there was no free and fair trade at all. Powers, (57) theBritish empire, the United States, Russia, Japan, divided the world into their spheres of influence—their colonies or dependencies, where their businessmen (58) their merchandise at high prices and bought (59) raw materials and labor at low prices. (60) of wealth flowed to these powers which then grew prosperous, (61) the colonies were driven into destitution (贫困). The national economy of colonies was innately defective. Their industries could not survive the overwhelming (62) of imports from the powers. Their monotonous national economy (63) in production of one or two agricultural crops or (64) products or minerals, to be sold in international market, for example, orange and sugarcane inCuba, banana and coffee in South-America, coal in Poland, all (65) to supply-demand relation in world market under control of the powers.Even their customs were governed by officials from the powers, whose exported goods thus could enter the colonies nearly duty-free. It was after the collapse of colonialist system all over the world that free and fair international trade, at least theoretically, could be possible.
A、variantB、diverseC、changeable D、divergent
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
此题属于语义搭配题。选项A variant意为“不同的”，含slightly different from the usual form之义，例如：The word“flavour”is a variant spelling of“flavor”.(flavour是flavor的另外一种拼法。)选项B diverse意为“各种各样的”，例如：His interests are diverse.选项C changeable意为“多变的”；选项D divergent意为“分歧的，意见不同的”。应选B diverse来修饰merchandise意为“各种各样的商品”，与上文中的various相呼应。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>